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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 14, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
TTNDER tliis heading we endeavor to give advice and 
suggestions about feeding mixtures of grains and 
fodders. No definite rules are given, but the advice is 
based upon experience and average analysis of foods. 
By "protein” is meant the elements in the food which go 
to make muscle or lean meat. “Carbohydrates” comprise 
the starch, sugar, etc., which make fat and provide fuel 
for the body, while “ fat ” is the pure oil found in foods. 
"Dry matter” means the weight of actual food left in 
fodder or grain when all the water is driven off. A 
“ narrow ration ” means one in which the proportion of 
protein to carbohydrates is close—a ” wide” ration means 
one which shows a larger proportion of carbohydrates 
Ration for Cows. 
Give me a balanced ration for my cows, 
am making butter; cows mostly Jerseys. 
IIow much to feed each cow? I have 
good corn silage cut when about ready 
to shock, ear corn and oats ground to¬ 
gether; shredded dry fodder, clover and 
Timothy hay; can buy oil meal at $34; 
cotton-seed meal at $30; Alfalfa meal, 
$32. a. R. 
Ohio. 
If you have plenty of silage I would 
recommend feeding 30 to 35 pounds per 
cow daily. If the supply is limited it 
will be well to decrease the amount, so 
as to make the silage last till Spring. 
The same rules will apply to the shredded 
fodder and hay. Dry fodder should be 
fed according to the cow’s appetite rather 
than by weight, all she will eat without 
waste. If you mix equal parts by weight 
of your corn and oat feed and cotton¬ 
seed meal you will have a very good mix¬ 
ture for milk production. A cow giving 
20 pounds of milk daily should have about 
six pounds of this feed, and more or less 
according to the amount of milk. I 
think the best way to feed grain is scat¬ 
tered over the silage. If one has some 
rather unpalatable roughage, as straw, 
over-ripe hay, the cows will eat it much 
more readily if the silage is put on the 
hay, or straw, and the grain on the 
silage. I suppose this is on the plan 
of peaches with bread and butter. At 
any rate, the cows like it better that way. 
C. L. M. 
Bean Meal for Cattle. 
Will you give me formula for mixing 
the common bean ground to meal with 
corn, bran, oats or rye, or any part of 
this that would make up something like 
a balanced ration for young cattle, also 
for milch cows, and the best way of pre¬ 
paring for hogs? I have about 50 bushels 
table beans that are hardly fit for food, 
weevily old crop, that I wish to feed to 
my stock. D. B. C. 
Virginia. 
Beans are very rich in protein, besides 
containing a fair amount of carbo¬ 
hydrates. However, they are not particu¬ 
larly relished by stock, except sheep. If 
ground and mixed with other grain, how¬ 
ever, they will readily be eaten. If the 
bean meal comprises about one-third of 
the ration with any of the grains you 
mention the proportion will be about 
right. For milch cows equal parts of 
bean meal, corn or rye meal and bran 
will be good, and this same mixture will 
do very well for young cattle. For pigs 
equal parts of beans, corn and rye, 
ground together and made into a slop 
will give good results. c. L. M. 
Dairy Ration. 
Would you give balanced ration for 
milch cows? I have Timothy hay and 
shredded fodder, have all mill feed to 
buy. I have an opportunity to buy 1% 
tons rye flour at $1.40 a hundred. Would 
it pay to buy it and mix with other feed? 
Other feeds are middlings $1.50, oil meal 
$2, sucrene $1.40, bran $1.30, mixed feed 
$1.70 and $1.60 per hundred. The rye 
flour is treated with palum (?) oil at the 
tin mill. Is this harmful? w. H. s. 
West Virginia. 
I would advise you not to touch the 
rye flour for the purpose of cow feed, as 
the chances are that you would not get 
satisfactory results from its use. I have 
never used “palum” (palm?) oil so can 
not advise in regard to it. I would much 
prefer to use the mixed feed or you could 
make a home mixture of two parts corn- 
meal, two parts cottonseed meal, and four 
parts dried brewers’ or distillers’ grains. 
Your cows should also have some suc¬ 
culence, such as mangels, dried beet pulp 
or silage. If you could get some Alfalfa 
or clover hay to substitute for the Tim¬ 
othy hay you are feeding you would get 
much better results. c. s. G. 
Boiled Beans for Cows. 
On page 118 M. C. K. asks about feed¬ 
ing beans to cows. I have had considera¬ 
ble expex-ience in past years, feeding 
beans to dairy cows. I began feeding 
ground beans, but found that only a very 
limited quantity could be fed without in¬ 
juriously overloading the bowels. I then 
experimented with boiled beans. I found 
boiled beans perfectly safe to use in any 
quantity, and the best milk producer I 
ever fed. When cooking the beans I 
used a boiler that would hold 50 gallons 
or more. I jxut a perforated plate in 
bottom of boiler to hold beans from 
direct contact with bottom of boiler, as 
they are likely to stick to bottom and 
burn. I cooked enough at one time to 
last several days, and if care is taken 
when using to remove beaus only from 
surface each time and not dig down so as 
to allow air to get to those below they 
will not sour readily, and a batch can 
be made to last several days. I found 
most praetical way to cook as follows: 
Put the quantity for a batch into boiler 
(I used a round-bottom, cast iron kettle) 
and put in water, about what I thought 
the beans would absorb. Make a light 
fire, just enough to warm the water and 
let the beans soak two or more hours, 
then increase the fire to cook slowly 
several hours, watching the kettle and 
adding water if needed to keep from get¬ 
ting too dry. When done well the beans 
should not be stewed to pieces, nor have 
much water unabsorbed. About in same 
condition you would want them served 
on table for yourself. Salt may be used 
to season, but do not put it into kettle 
until beans ai’e nearly cooked, as it 
makes beans harder to cook. I have used 
many hundred bushels of beans, damaged 
beans, bean pickings, etc., and when I 
could get a fairly good article, I con¬ 
sidered it economical. I consider cooked 
beans the safest grain ration that can be 
fed cows, and the best for milk produc¬ 
tion. They may be fed in almost un¬ 
limited quantity if well cooked, without 
injurious effects. monroe morse. 
Massachusetts. 
A Horse Ration 
I would like to know 'what to feed a 
15-year-old hoi’se. He travels about 10 
miles every day half up hill and half 
down, also has to work on farm, though 
not often. I have wheat bran, oats, 
whole corn, cornmeal, gluten and oil 
meal on hand. w. s., JR. 
New York. 
For a young hoi’se doing rather light 
work I would recommend two parts oats 
and one part whole corn. For an oldish 
horse gi’ound feed is genei-ally preferable, 
and in your case probably a mixture of 
four parts ground oats, two parts corn- 
meal and one part oil meal would be 
about the proper thing. One quart of 
grain per hundred pounds of hoi’se daily, 
should be sufficient, unless you ai’e haul¬ 
ing very heavy loads. At any l’ate, feed 
enough to keep the horse in good condi¬ 
tion. c. L. M. 
Ration for Young Stock. 
I have 12 grade Holstein heifers, com¬ 
ing two years old, all due to freshen in 
about three months, also some last Spi’ing 
calves. They are nicely housed, have 
hay and corn-stalks, no beets or Alfalfa. 
The cornstalks are shredded and given to 
them with hay for roughage. What would 
be a proper ration for them, how mixed 
and what quantity fed to each, so as 
to keep them in good growing condition, 
and beneficial, looking to their develop¬ 
ment? Q. 
A very good grain x’ation would be two 
parts by weight of ground oats and wheat 
bran, and one part oil meal. Give the 
heifers four pounds daily of the mixtui’e, 
and the calves two to three pounds, ac¬ 
cording to size. If ground oats are not 
obtainable corn may be substituted, 
though oats are preferable. As to rough- 
age, give all they will eat reasonably 
clean. C. L. M. 
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